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The Sultan of Delhi Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq led a raid against Bengal. On his way back, in December 1324, he passed through Tirhut (Mithila). The Hindu prince Harisimhadeva, who could not resist him but did not want to submit, fled to Nepal.

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22nd of November 1324. In Italy, Marsilio da Carrara becomes the new Lord of Padua upon the death of his uncle, Jacopo I da Carrara.

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3rd of November 1324. At Kilkenny in Ireland, Petronilla de Meath, the maidservant of Dame Alice Kyteler, becomes the first person in the British Isles to be burned at the stake as a witch. Dame Alice had been able to escape before capture.

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7th of October 1324 (Genko 4, 19th day of 9th month): The Shōchū Incident, the plan by Japan's Emperor Go-Daigo to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate, is discovered by the shogun's security police, the Rokuhara Tandai, and persons involved (other than the Emperor) are arrested and punished.

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October 1324. A treaty was signed between Byzantium and Venice, following on from the preliminary treaty of June 11th.

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In the War of the Four Lords, the citizens of the city of Metz defended themselves against four nobles. They received military support in the conflict from the city of Strasbourg. At the end of September 1324, the four lords began the siege of the city of Metz and devastated the surrounding area.

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22nd of September 1324. The War of Saint-Sardos ends after Charles, Count of Valois forces the surrender of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent at La Réole, the last English fortress at the Duchy of Aquitaine. A six-month truce follows.

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11th of September 1324. When the body of King Sancho of Majorca arrives in the French city of Perpignan for interment at the Perpignan Cathedral, a mob attacks the funeral procession and steals valuables that had accompanied the corpse.

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4th of September 1324. James the Unfortunate becomes the new King of Majorca, a set of islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain, upon the death of his uncle, King Sancho the Peaceful.

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1st of September 1324. England: Gascony is threatened by French invasion; in return the French-born Queen Isabella's lands in England are seized by the Despensers.

25th of August 1324. War of Four Lords: In Western Europe, King John the Blind of Bohemia, his uncle Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier, Count Edward I of Bar and Duke Frederick the Fighter of Lorraine, meet at Remich and make plans to work jointly on besieging the city of Metz (now in France).

16th of August 1324. In Italy, Pagano della Torre, Patriarch of Aquileia, is defeated in battle at Vaprio d'Agogna in Piedmont in his attempt to reclaim Milan from the Visconti family, and abandons further crusades.

15th of August 1324. The coronation of King Christopher II of Denmark (who has ruled since 1320) takes place at Vordingborg, with his son Prince Erik Christoffersen being crowned alongside him as the "samkonge", a junior co-monarch.

5th of August 1324. The Blitar Regency is established on the island of Java (later part of Indonesia) by Java's King Jayanegara of Majapahit.

August 1324. War of Saint-Sardos: Charles IV of France invades Gascony. Charles of Valois, the king's uncle, invades Aquitaine.

26th of July 1324. Basarab I, ruler of Wallachia (now part of Romania) is designated by King Károly Róbert of Hungary as a subject of the Hungarian crown.

19th of July 1324. (26 Rajab 724 AH) Mansa Musa, the extraordinarily wealthy Emperor of Africa's Mali Empire, arrives in Cairo after three days of camping by the pyramids of Giza, and brings with him a large entourage of fellow Muslim pilgrims and a vast supply of gold.

19th of July 1324. Peace treaty between Pisa and Aragon. Aragon takes possession of the castle of Cagliari in the Kingdom of Sardinia.

11/7/1324. Pope John XXII declares that Ludwig the Bavarian will be deposed as King of the Germans because of his March 23 excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. King Ludwig continues his reign and in the 1325 Treaty of Trausnitz made his rival, the Habsburg claimant Friedrich, his co-king.

6th of July 1324. The previous Grand Commander Werner von Orseln is elected 17th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order by the General Chapter in Marienburg, succeeding Karl von Trier, who died in his hometown on February 11.

5th of July 1324. A royal wedding takes place in France as King Charles IV marries his cousin Joan of Évreux, the 14-year-old daughter of his uncle, Louis, Count of Évreux.

2nd of July 1324. Dame Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny was officially condemned as a witch and fled Ireland to either England or Flanders. She had been accused of bewitching and killing her husbands, and of heresy.

1st of July 1324. Using as a pretext the fact that Edward II of England had not yet paid tribute for Guyenne, Charles IV of France decided to confiscate the duchy. From the month of August, the royal troops, led by Charles de Valois, occupied the land without much resistance.

24th of June 1324. King Charles IV of France issues an order declaring the Duchy of Aquitaine, French territory ruled by King Edward II of England, forfeited to the crown. The move comes after King Edward fails to render homage, as Duke of Aquitaine, to King Charles.

24th of June 1324. Ludwig the Bavarian, King of the Germans, gives the Duchy of Pomerania (now part of Germany and Poland) to his son, Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, exacerbating the Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict.

24th of June 1324. Marsilius of Padua publishes the treatise Defensor pacis (dedicated to Louis IV), in which an anti-clerical state theory based on the doctrine of popular sovereignty is developed.

23rd of June 1324. Death of Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. While on an embassy to France, he suddenly collapsed and died while lodging somewhere in Picardy.

13th of June 1324. The Pope calls on both sides in the conflict between Henri de la Tour du Pin, the Bishop of Metz, and Duke Frederick IV of Lorraine, to make peace and make amends for the damage caused.

13th of June 1324. King Edward II of England dispatches his envoy, Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke to France in an attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the Saint-Sardos incident.

11th of June 1324. The Byzantine Empire, represented by diplomatic envoy Stephen Syropoulos, signed a treaty with the Republic of Venice, led by the Doge Giovanni Soranzo.

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6th of July 1324. The previous Grand Commander Werner von Orseln is elected 17th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order by the General Chapter in Marienburg, succeeding Karl von Trier, who died in his hometown on February 11.

2nd of July 1324. Dame Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny was officially condemned as a witch and fled Ireland to either England or Flanders. She had been accused of bewitching and killing her husbands, and of heresy.